The Rise of Network Culture

What is the difference between digital culture and network culture? Can we understand the digital culture is the development of physical object, and the network culture is the connection among all object? If this is the case, what kind culture will be the combination of these two? Or the idea of network culture is already the combination. “If appropriation was a key aspect of postmodernism, network culture almost absent-mindedly uses remix as its dominant form.” Remix of everything? Is there which connection between the postmodernism and network culture can happen at modernism and digital culture?

Network Fever

“Doxiadis’s basic image of a building is a minimal form, a single thick semicircular line defining a shelter containing a dense internal life that is extended out by the wandering tentacles of different forms of circulation. Buildings are but “shells” for movement patterns that reach out far beyond them. Whereas buildings house function, networks are pure function, function without shell. If modern architects are serious in their commitment to function, they will have to reduce their fixation on shells and become responsible for networks.”

If architecture is only the shell and which should be flexible, what will happen to typology? Maybe the typology is developing among the change of the shell. Will Doxiadis’s image have similar result/ product as the living bubble?

In both reading, at some points, they all addressed the idea that city as a growing object, such as the network communication and the organism. I agree this idea, but just like the organism, by the law of nature, any organism will die. Will a city die? What will cause decease? Lack of comminuting? Lose of population?